Via that amazing source of coffee intel, New York Coffee Jobs, run by the indefatigable Mike White (of Shotzombies), I saw that a new coffee roaster, the strangely named 1982 Coffee, has popped up in Borough Park. It looks from their Instagram that they opened in early September.

Somehow we missed the fact that it’s New York Coffee Week, sponsored by Foursquare, and nearly over.

As part of that, Búdin, Greenpoint’s Nordic-focused cafe, is hosting a cupping this Saturday 10/14 featuring coffees not usually found in this part of the world, including Tim Wendelboe, Drop Coffee, and La Cabra, along with Lofted, roasted in Bushwick.

This Thursday 3pm, NYU’s Coffee Club is hosting a free screening of the documentary Barista at that school’s Kimmel Center. Strangely, the event is not listed on their nice looking website, but you can find it on their Facebook Page. Cafe Grumpy coffee will be served.

Correction: It’s apparently only for NYU students, but if you contact them they might find room for you.

Last month they also reported that Ceci Cela will be opening a Lower East Side shop on Delancey next to the Bowery Ballroom. This Soho stalwart was a favorite of ours as recently as 10 years ago, but there is a lot more competition in the French pastry realm these days, with most of the new spots having far better service than Ceci Cela. They’re not even mentionable these days in the coffee realm, but maybe the new shop will see them using a better roaster.

Five years ago there was no Third Wave coffee scene in Astoria, Queens, and even after The Queens Kickshaw opened in downtown Astoria, it seemed like nothing else was going to take root. Then, almost all at once, several shops opened along 30th Avenue including Kinship Coffee Cooperative, Gossip Coffee, and Astoria Coffee.

A few cafes opened almost at the same time in the Ditmars section of Queens, as well, with only two of them falling under our purview, 60 Beans and OK Cafe.

A few years ago there was only one quality Third Wave coffee shop in Flushing, Queens, but now there are three, although they are widely spaced geographically. There are also a few other shops that are favorites of ours for working, for the most part much larger than their counterparts in the remainder of the city.

We were never fans of the signature drinks at Press Tea, but the elegant Apartment Therapy-style living room was appealing, so we’d use it as a place to meet friends or read. Their schtick involved preparing pre-ground tea in a modified espresso machine, producing drinks that were bitter and astringent.

However, the last time we visited, they had jumped on the crossover Asian cuisine bandwagon, dishing out bad Asian “tacos,” cramming a full kitchen counter into the small space but losing the charm conferred by the interior design in the process.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ West Village flagship displays the organization’s penchant for elaborate design but doesn’t follow the direction of their first New York City location, the brass-trimmed, standing-room only location in the Ace Hotel. Instead, the Greenwich Village shop uses artifact-laden bookshelves and other cues to make you feel as if you’re in a museum or library instead of a coffee shop.

The Greenwich Village Stumptown Coffee Roasters offers something for everyone, not just interior design aficionados, branching out on the coffee front as well. Read our review to delve deeper.